Friday, August 28, 2015

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today.
Choose Joy Anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is what happens to us
when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Life is made up of small pleasures.
Happiness is made up of those tiny successes.
The big ones come too infrequently.
And if you don't collect all these tiny successes,
the big ones don't really mean anything.
- Norman Lear

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday, August 27, 2015

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness,
but of power.
They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of
overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

The dew of compassion is a tear.
- Lord Byron

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
- Natalie Clifford Barney

The bitterest tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
- Alfred Austin

Tears and laughter cleanse the heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Are you holding back long-suppressed emotions? Let your feelings flow, right now.

While some of us wear our emotions on our sleeve, others keep feelings bottled up for decades. Strike a balance. If you are suffering with unexpressed frustration or grief, let the tears flow. Then find a friend to laugh with. Laughter, however artificial it feels, lightens the saddest moments and bonds us to family and friends.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others.
Devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive one another.
- Colossians 3:12

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Friday, August 21, 2015

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure,
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm

People are never more insecure than when they become
obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
- Norman Cousins

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

Pay attention. Cultivate awareness.
Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully if
our thoughts are focused on regretting the past,
preoccupied with anticipating the future,
or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

Monday, August 17, 2015

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure
until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

The impulse to blame something or someone is foolishness.
There is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past.
Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Today's affirmation:I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sunday, August 16, 2015

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 1:8-9

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
- Mother Teresa

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Saint Augustine

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
- Matthew 7:5

Three conditions are necessary for Penance:
1. Contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment;
2. Confession of sins without any omission; and
3. Satisfaction by means of good works.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

While in a religious context, "sin" is defined as "violating God's will,"a more universal definition might be "harming others."

Saturday, August 15, 2015

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created,
not just as it looked when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy

Friday, August 14, 2015

Forgiveness is unlocking the door
to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

I can only have peace of mind
when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky

It is not easy to forgive,
but make the effort again and again.
Nothing else you can ever do in life
will repay you as richly as forgiving
and loving those you have called enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Anthony Robbins

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life repeats itself mindlessly.
Unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
- Osho

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living,
new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
- Henry Van Dyke

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain

Persistence only takes you so far.
Then you need to try a different approach.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friday, August 7, 2015

Love and kindness are never wasted.
They always make a difference.
They bless the one who receives them,
and they bless you, the giver.
- Barbara de Angelis

Let us be kind;
The way is long and lonely,
And human hearts are asking for this blessing only --
That we be kind.
We cannot know the grief that men may borrow,
We cannot see the souls storm-swept by sorrow,
But love can shine upon the way to-day, to-morrow --
Let us be kind.
- W. Lomax Childress

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

The greatest impact we can have on our family, our friends, and our world
is our kindness and love.
Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thursday, August 6, 2015

We all have a fear of the unknown.
What one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.
- Lillian Russell

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you,
therefore no harm can befall you;
all is very, very well.
Do this in complete faith and confidence.
- Pope John Paul II

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Todays affimation:
I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.
I choose
to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.
I understand that my
way is not the only way -
that inner peace comes from respecting the
ways of others,
and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and
happiness
from the ideas and traditions of others.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

When we seek to discover the best in others,
we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward

Most of us think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing --
that is, if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose.
Life becomes a zero-sum game.
... [In contrast,] Win-win sees life as a cooperative arena, not a competitive one.
Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks
mutual benefit in all human interactions.
Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying.
- Stephen R. Covey

Today's affirmation:I feel unity with Spirit and with all that is.
My life is richer for sharing my being with all those I meet.
Each experience, however it appears at the time,
highlights and strengthens the fabric of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
- William Arthur Ward

Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

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